Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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CRISPR Screening in Expanded Phenotypic Space
Published 2024The use of CRISPR-Cas systems in genetic screening has permitted rapid functional annotation of the genome. However, conventional pooled CRISPR screening is constrained in several ways, including: (1) limited diversity of ...USyd AccessThesis -
Genetic analysis of the oat crown rust pathogen Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae and identification of candidate avirulence genes
Published 2023The oat crown rust pathogen, Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae (Pca), causes significant disease in oat production globally. Pca is an obligate biotrophic pathogen requiring two hosts to complete its life cycle: the telial ...Open AccessThesis -
Multi-task Natural Language Understanding
Published 2024The field of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) concerns the mapping of textual utterances to representations of meaning upon which a machine can act. The standard representation is a dual level semantic frame; a sentence ...Open AccessThesis -
Politics, Intellectuals and Walled Villages in Modern China 1852-1937
Published 2024This thesis will show that, within the modern political discourse applied to China, walled villages were inevitably involved in a long-term state-building process in the Republican period, which aimed to modernize China ...USyd AccessThesis -
Enhancing Decision-Making in Offline Reinforcement Learning: Adaptive, Multi-Agent, and Online Perspectives
Published 2024Inspired by the successful application of large models in natural language processing and computer vision, both the research community and industry have increasingly focused on leveraging extensive datasets to enhance ...Open AccessThesis